Iain Macwhirter

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Iain Macwhirter

Another grim milestone in Britain’s elective deindustrialisation was reached today: Scotland’s only remaining petrochemical plant, Grangemouth in Fife, ceased refining crude oil after more than half a century of processing output from the Forties field in the North Sea. It was hardly a surprise. PetroIneos, the part-Chinese-owned company, announced last year that Grangemouth was to become a terminal for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imported from abroad.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Iain Macwhirter

Another grim milestone in Britain’s elective deindustrialisation was reached today: Scotland’s only remaining petrochemical plant, Grangemouth in Fife, ceased refining crude oil after more than half a century of processing output from the Forties field in the North Sea. It was hardly a surprise. PetroIneos, the part-Chinese-owned company, announced last year that Grangemouth was to become a terminal for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imported from abroad.

2 weeks ago | iainmacwhirter.substack.com | Iain Macwhirter

So, it seems the coalition of the willing isn’t actually very willing. After all that sabre-rattling against Putin, the UK and the EU have crawled back into their shells. They still complain bitterly that the bad man Trump is selling Ukraine short and “rewarding Russian aggression” by proposing to cede Crimea to Russia. Shocking! Shameful! But do something about it? That’s America’s business. Keir Starmer last month promised “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to bolster any peace deal there.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter